Curtain-pole.



S. KAY.

CURTAIN POLE. APPLICATION FILED 1120.12, 1911.

Patented Sept. 30, 1913.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH (10., WASHINGTON. D c.

SIMON KAY, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

CURTAIN-POLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 30, 1913.

Application filed December 12, 1911. Serial No. 665,294.

To all whom iii-may concern.

Be it known that I, SIMON KAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Poles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in curtain poles. V

The object of my invention is to provide a curtain pole which is simple, inexpensive and efficient in construction and which is designed to avoid the use of curtain pole rings for the purpose of suspending a curtain, portiere or the like.

\Vith the above and other objects in view my invention consists in the combination, construction and arrangement of parts clearly shown in the drawings and then more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Similar reference characters designate similar parts throughout the respective views of the drawings, wherein,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved curtain pole, partly broken away and showing a portion of a suspended curtain, Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional View of my improved curtain pole taken on line AA of Fig. 1 showing the means of at tachment for the pole, Fig. 3 is a detail end view of the curtain pole showing the means for adjusting the fastening means to be described, Fig. 4 is a cross sectional view of the curtain pole taken on the line CC of Fig. 1, Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the fastening means shown in Fig. 2, Fig. 6 is a cross sectional view of my invention taken on line BB of Fig. 1, Fig. 7 is a top plan view of the improved curtain pole.

Reference being made to the drawings which are merely illustrative of my invention it will be seen that the curtain pole 1 is sectional and is composed of two longitudinal members 2 and 3 of substantially equal width and made preferably out of wood or the like. Said longitudinal members 2 and 3 are formed intermediately with preferably rounded portions 1 which are arranged at diametrically opposite points. When the curtain pole is in operative position said rounded portions form enlargements which are arranged to contact, so that a fastening means such as screw bolts 5 may movably secure said members together, and may engage said enlargements instead of the body port-ion of said members.

At each end of each of the members 2 and 8, enlargements 6 and 6 and 7 and 7 are formed, said enlargements terminating in relatively larger surfaces 8, which as shown, are preferably cylindrical in contour to add to the symmetry of the curtain pole and through which are also passed screw bolts 9 having handle disks 10, which bolts secure the surfaces 8 in contacting relation so that the longitudinal members 2 and 8 upon which the enlarged portions 6 and 7 are formed may form one support having the necessary rigidity which a curtain pole support must have.

The members 2 and 3 are concave or disli- .shaped so that when joined through the instrumentality named. a hollow support is formed adapted to receive a curtain pole 10 of the usual form and construction, which curtain pole serves the usual function in so far that the upper end of a curtain is passed through it in secured position,but owing to thecircumstance that the bore formed by joining the members 2 and 3 will be substantially of greater diameter than the curtain pole 10, the upper end of the curtain 11 may readily be passed through and around the pole 10 until the edge may abut the body of the curtain to be supported.

In order to mount the curtain 11 upon the curtain pole support hereinbefore described, one of the sections forming the de' vice will be in supported position as the pole is placed therein, so as to cause the opposite section to conceal the pole when united to the first named section. For the purpose of suit-ably supporting one of the sections of the curtain hanger or support, I have shown brackets 12 and 18 formed with elongated slots 14 at their outer ends and intermediate the edges thereof through which project the screwthreaded shanks 15 of the thumb screws 16, whereby said shank may engage the oppositely arranged arms 17 and 13 of the sliding substantially dish-shaped members 19 and 20, which snugly fit the surfaces formed upon the enlargements 7 formed upon the member 2, said dish-shaped members forming substantially a semi-cylinder so that the edge thereof will fit flush with the edge of enlargement 7. Said dish shaped members are mounted in position by causing the arms 17 and 13 integrally formed thereupon to pass through the relatively elongated slots 21 formed in each of the enlarged portions 7 and 7 of member 2, so that said dish-shaped members may be moved longitudinally of the pole formed by members 2 and 3 for the purpose of adjusting the same to various widths of curtains to be supported. It will be seen that the wings of the thumb screws are in length greater than the width of the slots 14, and that said slots 14 are in length greater than the diameter of the shanks 15 of said screwbolts, so that by loosening the thumb screws 16, the arms car ried by the dish-shaped members may be moved transversely of the axis of the pole to various positions and will be held in position by tightening said screw bolt 16. In this way through the medium of the dishshaped members 19 and 20, the arms 1? and 13 are supported upon the brackets 12 and 18 which brackets are secured to the wall 21.

The upper end of the curtain 11 is placed around the pole 10 which is then inclosed between the members 2 and 3, the edges 22 and 23 of said members being spaced apart to allow the center to project therebetween.

To remove the longitudinal member 3 from the longitudinal member 2, the screws 9 and 5 will be turned a suilicient extent so as to become disengaged from the en larged surfaces formed on member 2 Sup ported on the brackets; to adjust the device so as to hold curtains of varying widths it will only be necessary to move the sections longitudinally, the movements being permitted by the slots 21 in which work the arms 17 and 13 formed upon the dishshaped members 19 and 20 which are arranged to engage the diametrically opposite ends of the curtain to be supported.

Numerous modifications may be resorted to in practice without departing in principle from the invention disclosed.

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A device of the character described comprising two longitudinal sectional members arranged to be joined, segmental enlargements formed centrally and terminally of each segmental member, screwrods tapped through the enlargements of the members to removably secure them together, heads upon said screw rods, dish-shaped members slidingly mounted in one of said members and having arms projecting outwardly of the latter, a rod having a curtain thereupon mounted in said lastnamed member and held in said dished members, the opposite member engaging said rod to conceal it and means engaging said arms to support the joined members. r

2. In combination with brackets secured to an abutment, a longitudinal concave member having dish-shaped members. countersunk at each end, a rod around which a curtain is wound having one-half of its body held in said concave member and in said dish-shaped members, a correspondingly shaped concave member arranged to inclose the other half of said pole, means for removably securing said last tosaid first named member, said concave member being simultaneously movable longitudinally of said dish-shaped members, and means carried by said dish-shaped members adjustably supported upon said brackets.

3. In combination with brackets secured to an abutment, a longitudinal concave member having dish-shaped members countersunk at each end, a rod around which a curtain is wound having one-half of its body held in said concave member and in said dish shaped members, a correspondingly shaped concave member arranged to inclose the other half of said pole, means for removably securing Said last to said first named members, said curtain having a part of its length vertically disposed between said concave members when they are joined, an arm formed upon each dish-shaped member, relatively elongated slots formed in one of said concave members through which said arms project, and means for adjustably securing said arms upon said brackets.

at. In combination a longitudinal concave member, dish-shaped members countersunk insaid member at opposite ends and having arms, said concave members having relatively elongated slots through which said arms project, a rod around which a curtain is wound having onehalf of itsbody held in said concave member and in said dishsha-ped members, a correspondingly shaped concave member arranged to inclose the other half of said pole, means for removably securing said first to said last named member, said curtain having a part of its length vertically disposed between said concave members when they are joined, and means for supporting said arms horizontally against a wall.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SIMON KAY.

Witriesses It. M. GATns, M. LUCKIESH.

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